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A POPULAR CONCEPTION OF LINCOLN. 

From one of Captain Hall's portraits. He now finds his memory of 
Lincoln's face more closely accords with the "Lyons' Bible photographj" 
(found in an old family Bible of a Montrose lady, who fjave three sons to 
the Union,) and which appears on the cover. Captain Hall is now engai;ed 
in painting a portrait, aided by this photojjraph. 



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(Offirrrs 



President — Captain George Edward Hall. 
First Vice-President — Rev. C. G. Langford. 
Second Vice-President — Mrs. Mollie W. Kent. 
Third Vice-President — Mrs. H. F. Manzer. 
Secretary — Miss Mildred Bray. 
Treasurer — Mrs. J. G. Wilson. 
Chaplain — Dr. C. H. Yatman. 



Board of Control — Captain George Edward Hall; Rev. C. H. Yatman, 
Rev. C. G. Langford, Mrs. Rebecca Benedict, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent, Wm. H. 
Warner, H. P. Read, Mrs. Lou K. Wilson, Miss Ellen Searle, W. W. Aitken, 
C. F. Pross, Mrs. Clara G. Miller, Miss Mildred Bray, H. F. Manzer, Mrs. 
H. F. Manzer, H. E. Cooley, Miss Fannie Bunnell, Mrs. Emily L. Ainey, 
Mrs. Agnes P. Little, F. R. Cope, Jr. 



Cnmmtttrrii. 



Welfare — F. \. Alden, R. F. Lesh, C. G. Langford, E. G. N. Holmes, 
A. T. Hrodrick. 

Finance — Mis. J. G. Wilson, C. F. Pross, W. H. Warner. 

Art — Mrs. H. F. Manzer, Miss Elian Searle, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent. 

Agriculture — C. F. Pross, B. H. Engle, E. P. Vogel. 

Patriotic — W. H. Warner, F. L Lott, F. R. Cope, James T. DuBois, 
Mrs. R. B. Little, Mrs. H. B. Benedict, Miss Ellen Searle, Miss Annah James, 
Mrs. Merle Hamlin and Miss Fannie L. Bunnell. 



"Honest Abe and Honest Art" is our motto. 



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Montrose is not only one of the 
most beautiful towns of the great 
state of Pennsylvania for location, 
health and natural scenery, but one 
of the most fortunate in the advant- 
ages that are vested in the institu- 
tions that make their homes among 
us. The Torrey Bible Conference has 
given Montrose a place on the map 
of our state, which no other town of 
its size can boast. "Nothing succeeds 
like success" Now comes the Lincoln 
Agricultural and Art Society of 
America. 

Captain George Edward Hall, of 
New York, an artist of ability, came 
back last summer to his native heath, 
to spend a vacation and to rest after 
a year of strenuous v/ork in his New 
York studio. He had not been in 
Montrose but a short time before he 
decided to make ths dream and object 
of his life a reality, viz., to found 
"The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
Society of America." 

This he has done, and to evidence 
his sincerity and high ideal, he has 
made provision whereby the society 



shall inherit his whole estate. The 
purpose of the L. A. & A. S. is beau- 
tifully altruistic, but simple. It is to 
find young meii and young women 
who have a decided natural bent 
toward art and agriculture, and where 
they lack the necessary funds to de- 
velop their gift to provide means for 
their education. 

The founder of the L. A. & A. S. 
is an advocate of the free evolution 
of Nature, both in mind and in plant 
life. Originality is to him one of 
man's greatest assets, while custom 
and the conventional have no vii-tue 
which he feels compelled to follow. 
The high aim and motive of the so- 
ciety cannot be questioned, nor can 
it be exceeded. 

Lincoln lives on! and works on! 
Saints, societies and sinners, all 
join in an army of toilers, whose pur- 
pose and plan is to work and give, 
that genius and soil may be set free 
to live that larger life of liberty, love 
and productiveness which may come 
to this good land and people. 



Irasnu for ICurattuu i'onrty at fUnutniaf 



(By George Edward Hall) 

I have often been asked the ques- 
tion, "why organize in the town of 
Montrcsea society intended for all 
America and, indeed, for the whole 
world? Why not give it birth in the 
metropolitan city?" 

First. — Because Susquehanna is the 
county of my birth, and where sleeps 
mv .sainted rnother. .\nd it was from 



here that I enlisted and went out to 
join Lincoln in his war for the flag 
which is the symbol of power and 
freedom. 

Secondly. — Montrose is situated in 
an agricultural eminence and in the 
great Keystone state, the state of our 
flag's nativity, and in which Lincoln, 
in his Gettysburg address, gave the 
flag rebirth and immortality. I come 
and ask you to unite with me in pro- 



senting Abraham Lincoln, the great 
American, to the lovers of freedom 
of every nation. Especially do I ask 
my comrades, their daughters and 
their sons. If the voice of the im- 
mortal Lincoln could be heard from 
across the "Great Divide," he would 
say: Guard well the old flag which 
has led us to become a united country. 
To your tender hearts and hands we 
commend and commit it. Transmit 



your love and veneration for the flag 
from child to child, and from genera- 
tion to generation, until our beloved 
country shall be free from every vice 
and evil. Go with it to the graves of 
our dead, with the flov/crs which you 
strew, bow and pledge yourselves to 
give aid to those who have proven by 
deed, not only that ihey are worthy, 
but that their need is greater than 
your own. 



(Tc^ttatn iJalfii llieiiui m\ Art 



Captain Kail's vie\v:^ on art as a 
whole, are unusual and we believe, 
progressive. His pictures, painted 
after seventy years of age, are re- 
markable in many ways. His trees 
in the California red wood pictures 
show great vigor and strength, and 
stand out in the foreground with ex- 
traordinary skill and lifelikeness. His 
theory to eliminate unnecessary fore- 
ground, bringing the principal object 
to immediate attention and promi- 
nence, is amply demonstrated in these 
pictures. 

The water scenes show wonderful 
atmospheric effects, not unlike Turn- 
er, whom he admires. He considers 
that the Impressionists are on the 
right track, but that they have still 
much to learn, and claims that the 
"great art of the future will consist 
of the technique of sight and the man- 
agement of light:" that "the truth 
in art demands geometrical propor- 
tion, rather than optical vision," 
which, latter, he says is defective and 
delusive. One of his favorite state- 
ments is, that "the focal vision con- 
tracts the physical main object, and 



enlarges te.xtures" (stage properties 
in other words) all wrong! 

His ideas are, in a sense difficult 
for lay members to grasp, but to stu- 
dents in art, they appeal stronrfly, 
and w'll. no doubt, have their bear- 
ing and influence in the future. In- 
deed, a man of so broad and philan- 
thropic a nature, one who works with 
such enthusiasm in getting effects 
tliat have attracted the notice and 
-tii'l" of artists, and critics, cannot 
fail to leave impress in the field of 
art. He has worked independentlv of 
tradition or prescribed methods, ev- 
idently with some inner t uth and 
.'is'on that he hopes m.ay be caught 
and brought out by some you ^er 
minds and lives. 

Cecau'se of his own belated efforts, 
his great desire is, that some younn' 
talented students shall be given cy- 
poitunity to carry to fuller comple- 
tion what he feels he has only begun. 

Heaven taught himself one of Na- 
ture's noblemen, with a true artist's 
soul. Captain Hal! says: "We can- 
not in-tru't Nature, pnd if we are 
to be properly taught, we must let 
Natu e instru't us." 



Brpnrt nf Ayrirultural (tiuuiuitlrr 



Lincoln said: "No organic law can 
ever be framed with a provision 
specially adapted to every question 
which may occur in practical admin- 
istration." 

Captain Hall has said: "We can- 
not instruct Nature, and will do best 
to let Nature instruct us." 



We are of the opinion that both 
are right, and the committee on agri- 
culture is preparing to make ri;rid 
experimentations along this lint. 

The views of Captain Hall, along 
one line of horticulture is indicated 
in the following article from the New 
York Times: 



FEB 21 1917 



Grafting Experiments. 



I inserted, according to the size of the 
trunk. The object v/as to form a 
In an interview, George Edward ^rown around the trunk. 



Hall, an old horticulturist, said 

"A freak of nature in the plant 
world is produced by some inter- 
ruption resulting in something en- 



"The top of the trunk was covered 
with wax composed of one pound of 
beeswax, three pounds of rosin, two 
pounds of tallow and one pound of 



tirely new, better or worse than its soap. This was applied hot, com- 
parent- To establish the best fruit mencing at the center, being careful 
or cereal find the best freak and ner- not to damage the bark with the heat 
petuate it, or cross it with the next , of the application, sealing tightly the 
best and produce still better. In for- cracks around the scions. The earth 
est, size is wanted; in orchard, qual- 1 that had been removed was then re- 



ity. 



"Years ago, in California, I pur- 



placed. 

"The scions used were from four 



chased an old orchard that at one inches to two feet long, from which 
time had been famous, containing all all but four or five of the upper bud 



the best Eastern apples, but it had 
long been uncultivated and the trees, 
seemingly, were worthless. It had 



had bean removed, thus forming a 
small trc3 the first year. Growth be- 
came rapid, especially after the first 



been planted in deep soil, and this year, and gained greatly over nur- 
facilitated my work with the roots, sery trees planted, fruiting three to 
The worn-out and diseased trunks "ve yairs sooner. 

were cut off below the surface of the | "Last season I added a new fea- 
soil and the roots uncovered. I found ture to this experiment in the state 
in some instances immense root for- : of Vermont- Instead of using wp->- 
mation quite out of proportion to to cover the stump top, I waited until 
the growth above ground and vice the bark peeled, then cutting from 
versa. , the bark of the fallen trunk a piece 

"Wherever there was a large root ' the size of the top of the stump, 
there was better top growth in every tacking it down carefully, binding 
case I found also that the difi'er- ' fii™ly over the bark remaining on 
ence in the size of the roots began the stump so the cambium layers, 
in the nursery bed, where the trees 'ving between the bark and the wood, 
we-e originally started, and this leads ' matched properly. In this case the 
me to believe some of the greatest scions were set a little below the top 
mistakes in orchard work are enacted , of the stump by slashing the bark 
in the nursery. Root stock is fre- at right angles, opening one of the 
nuently produced from feeble seeds, lower corners, inserting the wedge 
In Vermont, last summer, I learned , cut scion, which was afterward wax- 
that nurserymen were paying good ed and tightly bound. Late last 
prices for apple seeds gathered from autumn this stump was examined, and 
the pulp of cider apples, and as a rule the bark which topped the old stump 
the poorest apples only find their way was growing nicely together with the 
to the cider mill. Trees from this side bark and the scions were doing 
seed will produce a large percentage well. 

of poor root producing stock, and "The habit of using feeble buds or 
consequently, no matter from what scions, as well as splitting the heart 
stock the buds or grafts may be sup- of trees, I consider most pernicious, 
plied, but poor trees will result. "i recommend that aged or dis- 

"After sawing off the trunks of eased trees be cut down, the stump 
the trees in the California orchard removed after sawing off the leading 
the cut surface was smoothed over roots, the ends of the roots lifted 
carefully, so as not to injure the ei;- into the air and light, and properly 
circling bark, vertical slashes were capped with wax or bark, they will 
made about three inches downward, send forth new shoots, perpetuating 
opening the bark to receive a scion their kind, or they can be grafted as 
cut wedge shape to fit the opening, described. After its first season of 
pressing it well down to the round growth, drop the root and its grow- 
of the scion. Four to ten scions we;e ing trunk back into the trench that 



its junction may he covered and thus jfrow. If you want it farther away, 
protected. follow one of the leading: roots out 

"Wherever a feeble or aged tree toward its terminal to the place vou 
is found, nature's effort at recovery choose, dig and lift up the root to the 
can be seen in adventitious sprouts sun's warmth and an heir will soon 
or suckers appearing from the more appear that will surpass the growth 
vigorous roots. If you want a new of the parent." 
tre« quickly let one of these sprouts 



^krtrh nf Ca^ttaiu i^all's ICifr 



Captain George Kdward Hall, the 
founder of the Lincoln Agricultural 
and Art Society of America, was born 
in 1837, on a farm located upon the 
beautiful Sus(iuehanna river, near 
Hallstead, Pa. He left the farm at 
the age of 1 1 years, and from that 
time made his own way, educating 
himself. He was one of the first in 
Susquehanna county to respond to 
the call of PresideTit Lincoln for vol- 
unteers in 'fil. 

He was made first lieutenant of his 
company. He was wounded at the 
battle of Bull Run and lay wounded 
upon the battlefield for five days. 
He re-entered the army as a member 
of the Invalid Corps, afterwards the 
U- S. V. R. Co., where he' did import- 
ant guard duty to the end of the war. 

.-^fter the war he was employed by 
the Appleton Company, of New York, 
at a salary of $2,000 a year and ex- 
penses. He went to California in 
1878, and was married to Gertrude 
Ghalliger, of San Francisco, a lady 
of exceptional literary talent. To 
fulfill a promise to his wife, which he 
made before the nuptial, he gave up 
the woik of art and, with his wife, 
went to his large ranch amid the red- 
wood district of California, where he 
gave his time experimenting in hor- 
ticulture, and made many valuable 
discoveries. Returning to art work, 
after twenty years of ranch life, 
Capt. Hall returned to New York 
and took up his ait work, at the age 
of 70 years. No higher eulogy need 



be spoken than is set forth by the 
fact that Capt. Hall, after he had 
passed the three-score-and-ten mark, 
produced the master paintings which 
hang in the Librarv building, and 
which he has given to the Lincoln 
Agricultural and Art Society of 
America. 

After a life of no little literarv 
attainment, his wife, Gertrude Ghal- 
liger Hall, died in New York, a little 
over a year ago. 

Leadership is bound up in brains, 
blood and bone. Put potential power 
and promising possibilities together 
and add deep love with unselfish 
vision and you combine in that pe'- 
sonality one who leads the proces- 
sion, or heads the list, or is preiid^nt 
of the concern. 

Such is a pen pi<-ture of the man 
who is leader of the Lincoln Af^ri- 
cultural and Art Society of America. 

.\ny "Lincoln" society worthy of 
its name, should have a commamler 
who saw and had fellowship with this 
country's great chief. This Captain 
Hall had. He not only fought U'lder 
him, in 1861, but won in the stiuggle 
to live when wounded on the battle- 
field, where he lay for five days be- 
fore succor reached him. 

Let one who helped form the body 
guard of the Kmancipator gunrd and 
^■uide the interests of this society, 
that the fruits of its labor may honor 
at least two worlds — earth and 
heaven. 



i£uliniil nf iCtnailu 



On the night of the 12th of Kebru- tu-ky a liabc who was destined to be- 
ary, 112 years ago, there was born to come the world's central figure of the 
a shiftless familv in the hills of Ken- century -.\braham Lincoln. 




GEORGE EDWARD HALL, COMMANDER. 



This phenomenon of nature from 
remote ancestry received a powerful 
mind and body and would have be- 
come a marked man in any station of 
life, without his quality — a quality so 
fine and lofty that he could overiook 
derision, and even insult, for the com- 
mon weal. He could, when exegen- 
cies demanded, make Edwin M. Stan- 
ton his war chief, after he had inquir- 
ed in a great law case: "Where did 
this long-armed creature come from, 
and what does he expect to do in this 
case?" What the Nation needed in 
its peril was enouarh for this great 
soul. Surelv he had malice for none, 
and charity for all I 

Primitively, Lincoln was an idealist 
in small things, with a poet's concep- 
tiveness. His thought would go 
straight to the mark, and from intu- 
itive instinct he formed the right 
judgment of things by a simple analy- 
sis of cause and effect. 

Slow and methodical, he looked 
from all sides and would emneril no- 
thing by undue haste. He didn't seek 
to view a thing from the best position, 
but from every direction. He sought 
not only to know its exact appearance 
— but why it appeared different from 
various positions. Thus from realis- 
tic impressions he formed an idealis- 
tii' impression, a combined understan- 
ding that made the thing more real — 
a thing of life with its attributes of 
life, each part well functioned, as in 
his Gettysburg speech, wherein each 
w'nged word went home to its place 
like the swallow around the corner to 
ts nest. Thus with a lofty directness, 
with a philosophy born in him, he 
went to the root of things with a tinge 
of mysticism that takes hold of tl.e 
imagination of mankind and holds him 
in the place of libei-ator, patriot, ar- 
tist and statesman. He followed no 
craftsman. He walked alone. The 



fields were his, the skies were his and 
Earth his only instructor in the silent 
throbs of nature. 

He would not stoop to evil to do 
good — all good must come in a plain, 
honest way, come as the light falls — 
and as the day and the night come. He 
carried his proclamation of emanci- 
pation in the factor of his being, in 
the ardor of his blood from infancy to 
the power of Presidency, and when he 
saw the clanking chains on his trips 
down the Mississippi river he said : 
''They shall be free." 

Lincoln was an idealist in sorrows 
of daily life. He would lift some of 
the burden from a mule and bear it up 
the hill. He felt what others see and 
ignore. He would jest, but ahvays 
give a helping hand. Always he was 
the champion of right against wrong. 
Thus he has passed into history, the 
exalted exponent of realistic idealism. 
.■\nd now, in the fulness of time and as 
the anniversary of each day of his 
birth returns, mankind bows in revei- 
ence to the name of Lincoln — 

Lincoln, the God-like. 
Lincoln, the man. 
Lincoln, our starlight. 
Lincoln, the dayl'ght. 
Lincoln, God's patriot. 

Was Lincoln, the man. 

lyincoln, the wooer. 
Lincoln, the doer. 

Was Lincoln, the man. 

Lincoln, the zealot. 
Lincoln, the ideal. 
Lincoln, the real. 

Was Lincoln, the man. 

Lincoln, the laborer. 
Lincoln, the libei-ator. 

Was Lincoln, the man. 
Lincoln, our flower. 
Lincoln, as Nation's power. 

Was Lincoln, the man. 



The Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society of America purposes to 
have many branch organizations, working under its Constitution and By- 
Laws. Communities which wish to organize are invited to correspond with 
the Secretary. 



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The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
Society of America pledfres itself to 
the advancemc-it of American patriot- 
ism and citizenship, to which end the 
president appoints a committee to 
further this cause. 

This committee shall by co-opera- 
tion with other patriotic societies and 
educational agencies, by the observ- 
ance of national holidays, and by the 
inculcation of the privileges and 
duties which belong to us all, teach 



an appreciation of the American ideal. 
This ideal, born amid the suffering 
and sacrifices of our Colonial fathers 
and preserved and sancitified by Ab- 
raham Lincoln and his compatriots in 
the dark days of the Civil war will 
remain a priceless heritage ever to 
be protected, honored and held aloft 
for the inspiration of all Americans 
and the lovers of liberty and equal 
opportunity throughout all the earth. 



?JGturn Ill's tTriir IFarc. 



(By George Edward Hall.) 

Lincoln had a shield of honesty in 
his face, in which every man could see 
his own conscience; and Lincoln, 
would judge from his embarassment 
the man's character. This instantane- 
ous knowledge of Lincoln rarely made 
a mistake. 

I came to meet Lincoln in this way. 
I had nearly recovered from my 
wound when I returned to Washing- 
ton to find I had been honorably dis- 
charged because of its severity. I de- 
rided to see Lincoln about it. With 
fear and trembling, I sent in my little 
card, stating that I was a wounded 
soldier. He at once admitted me, 
leaving Generals, Senators and others 
waiting. 

I asked him if there was not some 
wav I could serve my country more. 
"Well, my boy, you are serving your 
country by being wounded However, 
I am glail you want to serve your 
countrv more." 

He was reading a letter as I enter- 
ed. He looked at me over his spec- 
tacles, then lifting them above his eyes 
on his forehead, looked at me 
searchinglv, as if looking for my 
wound. Then he took off his glasses 
and laid them on the table. I remem- 
ber it was a long table piled with 
maps and books. He arose and walk- 
ed slowly around to where I stood — 
no longer with fear, but as if I had 
met my best friend. He put his hand 
on my shoulder. "And you would 
like to go back to the front? But 



you are too badly wounded for that! 
Wait a little. Go back home and get 
well and strong. We are thinking of 
organizing an Invalid Corps to dis- 
place able men now on guard duty, 
and when we are ready for wounded 
recruits, send in your name and you 
.shall do more duty for your country!" 
He then asked me where and when I 
was wounded. "Oh. yes, these bad 
bulls that ran, but the last was not 
so mad-bad as the first." He then 
asked me about the management of 
the second Bull Run battle. I told 
him I felt my commander, McDowell, 
had been sacrificed by the jealousv of 
other generals, and I had the pleas- 
ure of entertaining him quite a little 
while the great men waited in the 
lobby. This illustrates the great good 
feeling of the man who gathered his 
wisdom from the lowly multitude. 

And L today, remember as if it 
were but yesterday, that benevolent 
face and the great hand that encom- 
passed mine as he said, "My dear boy, 
don't forget to send in your name for 
the Invalid Corps. God bless you, 
good-bye!" 

I sent in my n-^mc promptly and 
was promptly appointed second" lieu- 
tenant and ordered to Providence, 
R. I., where I was again mustered into 
the United States service, and from 
there ordered to Washington, appoint- 
ed to first lieutenant and placed in 
command of the Fourth company of 
this new corps, doing guard duty in 
the vicinity of the White House. 
Then I saw considerable of Lincoln 



until promoted captain and ordered 
with my company to New York city to 
guard " criminals. Then came the 
saddest duty of my life — to guard 
all that was mortal of the immortal 
man while he lay in stats at the city 
hall for the weeping multitude to gaze 
upon. Little thought I when I saw 
his face in life that I should so soon 
be called to guard his face in death. 
And now. at seventy-seven, I am de- 
votedly trying to recall that sublime 
face, that the people may see it as I 
saw it then in life. I have no 
help but my memory, for his face has 
been commercialized by artist and 
artisan until it har, become a carica- 



ture, rather than a character. Even 
a death-mask has been produced to 
vilify his gentle face in death; and 
one purporting to be a life-cast leav- 
ing the mole off! If it had been from 
life, Robert T. Lincoln would have 
never written me: "As to a cast, I 
have none and have never wanted one. 
I don't like them." And God save the 
mark! our halls and our parks are 
filled with Lincolns that never were. 

This is a gullible age! But there 
is a time coming when the idealism 
of Lincoln will go into effect and na- 
ture will have her own in art as well 
as in life. 



IGinrnln'B iFirsl Snllar. 



When he was about eighteen years 
old Abraham Lincoln, who, as he said, 
belonged to the "scrubs," people who 
owned no slaves and not much of 
anything else, built a raft to carry 
some produce down the river to sell. 

While he was looking at the work 
of his hands and wondering if he 
could better it, two men came down 
to the shore and, looking over the 
several small craft there, picked out 
Lincoln's boat and asked if he could 
take them and their trunks out to 
the big steamship coming down the 
river, there being no wharves in that 
locality. 

Lincoln sculled them out into the 
river and put them and their trunks 



aboard the steamship at the last min- 
ute, reminding them that they had 
forgotten to pay him. Each man 
then threw him a silver half dollar. 

"I could scarcely believe my eyes," 
said Lincoln in relating the occur- 
rence. "You may think it was a very 
little thing, and in these days it seems 
to me a trifle, but it was a most im- 
portant incident in my life. I could 
scarcely credit it that L a poor boy, 
had earned a dollar in less than a 
day; that by honest work I had earn- 
ed a dollar. The world seemed wider 
and fairer before me. I was a more 
hopeful and confident being from 
that time." 



(i^br 3Jimatr (tlnualni nf llinrnln. 



"I am not accustomed to the use 
of the language of eulogy; I have not 
studied the art of paying compli- 
ments to women; but I must say that 
if all that has been said by writers 
and poets since the creation of the 
world in praise of women were ap- 
plied to the women of America, it 
would not do them justice for their 
conduct during this war." 
* * * * * 

"You charge that we stir up insur- 
rections among your slaves. We deny 
it, and what is your proofs? Harper's 



Ferry! .John Brown was no Rer-ubli- 
can ; and you have failed to implicate 
a single Re^jublican in his Harper's 
Ferry enterprise. If any of our par- 
tv is guilty in that matter, you know 
it or do not know it. If you know 
it, you are inexcusable to assert it, 
and especially to persist in the asser- 
tion aftc- you have tried and have 
failed to make proof. You need not 
be told that persisting in a charge 
which one does not know to be true 
is simply malicious slander." — From 
Cooper I'nion Speech in 1860. 



^apimia unh Stories of Htncolu 



Consciences differ in different in- 
dividuals. 

Let us strive on to finish the work 
we are in. 

A house divided against itself can- 
not stand. — 1838. 

It is not safe to swap horses when 
you are crossing a stream. 

Gold is good in its place, but living, 
brave, patriotic men are better than 
gold. 

Let us have faith that might makes 
right, and in that faith let us, to the 
end, dare to do our duty as we under- 
stand it— Address Feb. 21, 1839. 

With malice toward none, with 
charity for all, with firmness in the 
right as God gives us to see the 
right. — Second Inaugural Address, 
1865. 



with whom I have ever talked, or in 
whose presence I have ever been, who 
did not consciously or unconsciously 
betray to me that he recognized my 
color. — Fred Douglass. 

He was a patriot and a wise man. 
His death was a calamity for the 
country, but it left his fame vdthout 
a fault or criticism. — Charles A. 
Dana. 

The next generation wall acknowl- 
edge that the man who rose from a 
log cabin to the Presidential chair, 
who led a vast Republic through its 
wilderness of perilous confusions and 
its red sea of horrible carnage, was 
a man who had no superior in the 
American annals. — Theodore L. Cuy- 
ler. 



THAT SETTLED IT. 



WHAT OTHER GREAT MEN 
THOUGHT OF LINCOLN. 

He was incontestably the greatest 
man I ever knew. — Ulysses S. Grant. 

He was the most perfect ruler of 
men the world has ever seen. — Edwin 
M. Stanton. 

He was a man made and molded 
bv Divine Power to save a nation. — 
William H. Seward. 

Lincoln is too sharp for me. Every 
time I go near him he winds me round 
his finger. — Horace Greeley. 

Of all the men I ever met he seem- 
ed to possess more of the elements 
of greatness combined with goodness 
than any other. — William T. Sher- 
man. 

Mr. Lincoln is the only white man 



A prominent citizen of California 
being in Washington for a few days 
during the civil war, sought permis- 
sion from General Halleck, whom he 
had known well in the West, to pass 
through the lines to see his brother 
in Virginia. 

Finally he obtained an interview 
with President Lincoln and put the 
case up to him. 

"Have you asked General Hal- 
leck?" Lincoln inquired. 

"Yes, and he refused me flatly." 

"Well, see Stanton," suggested the 
President. 

"I have seen him, and with the 
same result." 

"Well, then," said Mr. Lincoln with 
a smile, "I can do nothing, for you 
must know that I have very little in- 
fluence with this administration." 



Prramblr. 



Abraham Lincoln was an idealist in 
small things with a poet's conceptive- 
ness. His thought would go straight 
to the mark and from intuitive instinct 
he formed the right judgment of 
things by a simple analysis of cause 
and effect. Slow and methodical, he 
looked from all sides and would imper- 
il nothing by undue haste. lie didn't 
seek to view a thing from the best po- 
sition but from every direction. He 
sought only to know its exact ap- 
pearance but why it appeared differ- 
ent from various positions. 

Thus from realistic impressions he 
formed an idealistic impression, a 
combined understanding that made 
the thing more real — a thing of life 
with its attributes of life, each part 
full functioned, as in his Gettysburg 
speech, wherein each winged word 
went home to its place like the swal- 
low round the corner to its nest. 

Thus with a lofty directness, with a 
philosophy born in him, he went to 
the root of things with a mysticism 
that takes hold f the imagination of 
mankind, and holds him in the place 
of liberator, patriot, artist and states- 
man. He followed no craftsman. 
He walkad alone. The fields were his, 
the skies were his, and the earth his 
only instructor in the silent throbs of 
.Mature. 

He would not stoop to evil to do 
jrood — all good must come in a plain 
honest way, come as the light falls 



and as the day and the night come. 
He carried his proclamation of eman- 
cipation in the factor of his being, in 
the ardor of his blood, from infancy 
to the power of Presidency, and when 
he saw the clanking chains on his trips 
down the Mississippi, he said: "They 
shall be free." 

Lincoln was the idealist in the sor- 
rows of daily life. He would lift 
some of the burden from a mule and 
bear it up the hill. He felt what oth- 
ers see and ignore. He would jest, 
but always give a helping hand. Al- 
ways he was the champion of right 
against wrong. Thus he has passed 
into history, the exalted exponent of 
idealistic realism. 

"The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
Society of America," is an idealistic 
monument raised to the deeds of Ab- 
raham Lincoln and represents the 
hope that this society may bring out 
of the darks of the Future, many more 
gifted souls like Lincoln — some babe 
cradled in the hut, in the cabin, in the 
shop, from nowhere yet from some- 
where — from some vine-clad cot in 
the valley of the beautiful Susquehan- 
na, from some shack on the plains of 
the West — anywhere in our broad 
land where life comes into being. Let 
us i-each a hand to the obscure Lin- 
colns, Eurbanks and Edisons and teach 
them the enduring Idealism of these 
men. 



(Enuiitttuttnn. 



ARTICLE I. 
Name of Society. 

This organization shall be known 
as "The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
Society of America." 

ARTICLE II. 
Purpose of the Society. 

The purpose of the Society shall be 
to find those who have, by sober, ear- 
nest, energetic effort, and untaught 
study, proven that they possess some 
unusual talent which might enrich and 
advance the public welfare; 



To bring their efforts before the 
people in an honorable and efficient 
way; 

To render to such individuals need- 
ed counsel and friendly acts of en- 
couragement as well as practical as- 
sistance in the securing of patents, 
copyrights, etc., thus giving to the 
poor equal rights with the rich. 

The further object of this Society 
shall be to give scope to the free evo- 
lution of Nature, both in mind and in 
plant life, untrammeled by fashiona- 
i)le or conventional ideas and uncon- 
fined bv the beaten track of Custom. 



To find a way to continue right ten- 
dencies and suppress evil forms of ed- 
ucation and false growth and by de- 
ductions from that which is Divinely 
natural, form some practical philoso- 
phy of growth to take the place of 
science founded upon educated igno- 
rance. 

ARTICLE III. 

Special Aims and Encouragemcntt. 

This society shall have for its aim, 
special encouragement to those who 
have an original turn of mind to do 
things in their own way; not only to 
find talent and merit, but to foster the 
new growth possible to the intelligence 
of the human mind. It shall aim to 
be especially considerate of any wom- 
an who has given birth to a child who 
has rendered gallant and faithful ser- 
vice to the flag of his or her country. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Requirements from Prospective Mem- 
bers. 

This society demands personal re- 
nunciation of mercenary gain from 
the act of becoming a member. 

ARTICLE V. 
Membership. 

The membership of this society 
shall be open to all persons of good 
moral character who subscribe to the 
oath of membership, which is as fol- 
lows: In becoming a member of the 
"Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society 
of America." I pledge to deny self 
and promise mv good will to the ser- 
vice of those who by deed prove they 
nre more worthy of help than myself. 
That I will give $1.00 a year to the 
sutiort of the societv. so help me God. 

Life membsrship $10.00. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Council. 

The first twenty members shall be 
the charter members of this society 
and shall constitute a Council or 
Hoard of Referendum to which all 
(luestions under dispute shall be re- 
ferred. Their decision shall be fii.al 
in all matters. 

Vacancies on the Council shall be 
filled from the society members in 
good standing, by a majority vote of 
the remaining members of the Board 
— provided only that no art dealer, 



professional artist who paints for the 
market, nor theorist who seeks to di- 
vert the mind from that which is nat- 
ural and true, shall become a mem- 
ber of the Council. 

ARTICLE VIL 
Officers. 

The officers of this society shall be: 
President, three Vice-Presidents, Sec- 
retary, and Treasurer. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
Election of Officers. 

Officers shall be elected at the annu- 
al meeting and hold their respective 
office for one year. 

Any officer may at the pleasure of 
the society be re-elected to office. 

Officers must, at the time of elec- 
tion, be clear of all charge on the 
books of the society. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Meetings. 

The regular meetings of this society 
shall be held monthly on the first 
Wednesday of each month, at 7:30 
o'clock. Ten members, including 
President (or Vice-President) and 
Secretary or Treasurer shall con- 
stitute a quorum. 

The annual meeting shall be held 
on the first Wednesday in October of 
each year. 

Special meetings may be called by 
the President, or five members of the 
Boai-d, whenever occasion demands. 

i ARTICLE X. 

Dues. 

The annual dues shall be one dol- 
I lar, payable in advance on or before 
the annual meeting. 

ARTICLE XII. 
Committees. 

The President shall at the annual 
meeting, appoint a Finance Committee 
consisting of three members, one of 
whom shall be the Treasurer of the 
society, whose duty it shall be to au- 
dit and approve all bills and accounts 
before orders for payment of same 
shall be drawn on Treasurer by the 
President and Secretary. 

The President shall also appoint a 
Welfare Committee to be composed of 
five members in good standing. All 



cases of worthy talent in need of as- 
sistance or encouragement may be re- 
ported to this committee for investi- 
gation. 

Recommendations from the com- 
mittee for pecuniary assistance must 
be referred to the Finance Committee, 
subje I to the approval of the Presi- 
dent and Council Board. 

The President shall appoint an Art 
Committee and an Agriculture Com- 
mittee of three each whose duty it 
shall be to keep well informed in the.se 
several departments and make reports 
and reviews from time to time to the 
society at its monthly me<-tings to 
stimulate the interest of the members 
in the object of the society and to 
keep them posted on matters bearing 
upon its fields of operation. 



The President and three Vice-Presi- 
dents shall constitute a standing Exe- 
cutive Committee for the general di- 
rection of the society and the planning 
of its work, with power to appoint all 
committees not otherwise provided 
for. 



MEMBERSHIP FEES. 



The annual dues of membership in 
the society is one dollar a year. The 
first year's dues are payable upon ap- 
plication for membership. The local 
membership committee is as follows: 
Mrs. H. B. Benedict, Miss Ellen 
Searlc, Mrs. H. F. Manzer, Mrs. Lou 
K. Wilson, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent and 
Wm. H. Warner. 




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